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ATGATT is the most comprehensive list of safe motorcycle gear on the internet, featuring data from SHARP, SNELL, DOT, ECE, and Revzilla. Filter, sort, and compare products and share gear lists with your friends.
Launched November 22, 2024
Move #atgatt back to the cloud because I'm selling my home server (decided it's too much of a distraction vs. just hosting on hetzner/aws) #devops
Recover ATGATT due to some bug in Dokku where config values get corrupted if there are spaces/etc in them by changing the DB password #atgatt #devops
Remove tinyadz because they paid me $0 for my traffic after a month and their ads don't even make any sense for my target audience. Clearly motorcyclists are not going to buy some shitty landing page builder, they want motorcycle things #atgatt
Ask Copilot to convert from Vue 2 to Vue 3 so I can use Astro to statically generate a lot of these routes for better SEO (it only supports Vue 3). Got a lot of fixes to make! #atgatt
Convince motorcycle company to approve my affiliate application and add affiliate links sitewide #atgatt
Get denied for an affiliate deal with a motorcycle company, will try to email them and see if they’ll approve me anyway #atgatt
Apply to be an affiliate partner for motorcycle brand for #atgatt
Add backlinks to other products for extra SEO juice #atgatt
Launch on X and LinkedIn and bsky (already on PH and HN): x.com/ben_makes_stuff/status/… and www.linkedin.com/feed/update/… and bsky.app/profile/benmakesstuf… #atgatt
Fix missing images not displaying the placeholder image properly #atgatt
Try adding a maker link levelsio style bc this is a product without a landing page and people are probably going to be too lazy to click About -> About Us to see who built it #atgatt
Use AI-generated placeholder image if the bg worker failed to download a product image #atgatt
Copy over all product images to production R2 bucket using Cloudflare's handy migration tool #atgatt
Get API deployed and connected to the DB #atgatt
Swap IPs and finish scraping all data necessary to relaunch #atgatt because they’ve added too much bot protection
Fix helmet, jacket, pants, boots, gloves common importer code to work-around bot detection from Cloudflare + add retries because I'm scraping the shit out of a bunch of websites and I keep getting 403s #atgatt
Get helmet data importer working again with Cloudflare R2 and see helmets rendered in the UI #atgatt
setup Cloudflare r2 for gear image hosting #atgatt
Progress on data importer #atgatt
Get 7 year old frontend app building and running with about a million node dependency warnings and security vulnerabilities #atgatt
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